Shelia Gray Elected President of DirectEmployers Association

Shelia D. Gray, Director of Global Talent Acquisition at International Paper Company, has been elected president of DirectEmployers Association, a non-profit consortium of over 300 leading U.S. employers which owns and operates JobCentral National Labor Exchange.

Ms. Gray succeeds Robin Katzman, Program Manager for Staffing Services at Lockheed Martin, who will continue on DirectEmployers Association Board of Directors and will serve the coming year as Past-President. Ray Schreyer, Program Manager for Internet Recruiting Strategies at IBM Corporation, is the Association’s new President-Elect and will become President in 2008-2009.

Bill Warren, Executive Director of DirectEmployers Association, says, “Our member companies and everyone on our headquarters staff appreciate Robin Katzman’s many contributions and her leadership during one of the Association’s most dramatic years of new membership growth and new services introduced into the Human Resource market.” He added, “We look forward to working with Shelia Gray and our newly elected Board of Directors.

About DirectEmployers Association and JobCentral National Labor Exchange

DirectEmployers Association's purpose is to share best practices, create new industry standards, provide research, and develop and manage systems and software for employers to increase labor market efficiency and reduce recruiting costs. JobCentral National Labor Exchange is the flagship service of the Association. Its member companies include an impressive group of industry leaders such as Abbott Laboratories, Analysts International, Allstate, ALLTEL Corporation, Anheuser-Busch, Ashland, Avaya, Bausch & Lomb, Baxter, Bell South, Cargill, Cisco, Coca-Cola, General Electric, General Dynamics, H&R Block, IBM, International Paper, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, Mellon Financial Corporation, Merck, Harris Corporation, Home Depot, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Mayo Clinic, Northrop Grumman, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, Raytheon, Southern Company, Sprint, Textron, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Union Pacific, Volt Information Sciences, and Xerox Corporation.